Memcache is very powerful and has been widely supported by current CMS including WordPress and Joomla.
Steps to enable memcache in Joomla.
- Open or edit your Joomla configuration.php file and then locate and change the following lines:
public $caching = '0';
public $cache_handler = 'file';Become:
public $caching = '2';
public $cache_handler = 'memcache';- Add the following line right after the line above ( public $cache_handler = 'memcache'; ):
public $memcache_server_host = 'localhost';
public $memcache_server_port = '11211';And save the configuration configuration.php file
- Login to your Joomla admin area and then select the Global Configuration -> System tab. After that, enable persistent memcache and follow the configuration as shown in the following screen shot:
note: we recommend that you do not enable memcache compression because in some cases it can cause the website display to be damaged.